Gearing Up! (FIRST documentary)

[GaryVoshol]

Gearing Up will be repeated on Channel 56 (Detroit) at 9:00 tonight, 6/1/10. Your chance to see it again, or if you're like me for the first time. I missed it the first time around because it was broadcast very early following its release.

[xitaqua]

Is there any students or mentors that participated on the Gearing Up PBS Documentary still involved with FIRST Robotics, I can not believe it has been more than 5 years. I t would be neat if we all met on a 10 year anniversary on 2018......

Cheers,
Marcos.

[RoboMom]

Mentors from 2528 - The RoboDoves still involved, including Ron Karpinski. He spent yesterday teaching CAD all day at the annual Baltimore Area Alliance Education Day to benefit teams from all over Maryland.

[OZ_341]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Mentors from 2528 - The RoboDoves still involved, including Ron Karpinski. He spent yesterday teaching CAD all day at the annual Baltimore Area Alliance Education Day to benefit teams from all over Maryland.

I am sure that Ron is as awesome as ever. He is still one of my FIRST heroes. (no joking around)
I am still around with Team 341. It would be cool to somehow get some kids from the original teams together this year in St. Louis, since that is where it was produced. Just thinking out loud.
Hope all is well with everyone involved.

Al Ostrow
Team 341

[DampRobot]

It seems like most media representations of FRC sort of get it wrong (it's a science fair! It's a demonstration!), but I really liked how this one portrayed FRC.

Does anyone know if some of the 341 members are still around? The head mentor, the guy with the baseball hat and beard and the driver with the long hair all seemed to really be a strong force on the team. It would be cool to know that they stuck around and helped drive the creations of some other great 341 bots.